Ranking of South Dakota Counties By Population Density from Census 2020

Updated on October 17, 2023.

According to the data from the US 2020 Census, as at April 2020, among all South Dakota counties, Minnehaha County had the highest population density per square mile (244.43 people per sqr mile), followed by Lincoln County (112.87 people per sqr mile), and Davison County (45.81 people per sqr mile).

On the other hand, Harding County had the lowest population density (0.49 people per sqr mile), followed by Jones County (0.95 people per sqr mile), and Perkins County (0.99 people per sqr mile).

The chart below shows the top 10 counties with high population density, and the table below shows the ranking of all South Dakota counties.

You can also see similar ranking of counties information for other states as well as for all counties in the United States.

Ranking of South Dakota Counties By Population Density from Census 2020
Minnehaha
Lincoln
Davison
Yankton
Brookings
Codington
Pennington
Union
Clay
Lawrence
Ranking of South Dakota Counties By Population Density from Census 2020
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Rank County Population Density
1 Minnehaha County 244.43
2 Lincoln County 112.87
3 Davison County 45.81
4 Yankton County 44.73
5 Brookings County 43.39
6 Codington County 41.20
7 Pennington County 39.33
8 Union County 36.49
9 Clay County 36.33
10 Lawrence County 32.21
11 Hughes County 23.96
12 Brown County 22.36
13 Lake County 19.65
14 Beadle County 15.21
15 Turner County 14.06
16 Bon Homme County 12.43
17 Moody County 12.20
18 Hamlin County 12.16
19 Grant County 11.09
20 McCook County 9.90
21 Roberts County 9.34
22 Hutchinson County 9.14
23 Meade County 8.60
24 Charles Mix County 8.54
25 Hanson County 7.96
26 Walworth County 7.50
27 Deuel County 6.90
28 Todd County 6.71
29 Douglas County 6.57
30 Oglala Lakota County 6.53
31 Brule County 6.42
32 Kingsbury County 6.23
33 Custer County 5.34
34 Day County 5.30
35 Marshall County 5.14
36 Butte County 4.55
37 Spink County 4.23
38 Buffalo County 4.13
39 Sanborn County 4.09
40 Miner County 4.03
41 Clark County 4.01
41 Fall River County 4.01
42 Gregory County 3.94
43 Aurora County 3.88
44 Edmunds County 3.54
45 Tripp County 3.49
46 Jerauld County 3.16
47 Potter County 2.87
48 Bennett County 2.85
49 Dewey County 2.28
50 Lyman County 2.26
51 Hand County 2.19
52 Faulk County 2.17
53 McPherson County 2.12
54 Stanley County 2.06
55 Campbell County 1.88
56 Corson County 1.58
57 Jackson County 1.51
58 Hyde County 1.47
58 Mellette County 1.47
59 Sully County 1.44
60 Ziebach County 1.23
61 Haakon County 1.03
62 Perkins County 0.99
63 Jones County 0.95
64 Harding County 0.49